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...Jesse's parents surrendered custody to his grandparents, he would become eligible for surgery. Though Jesse ultimately got a heart, the hospital's initial rejection sparked a heated debate on how to evaluate transplant candidates. The dearth of donor organs in the U.S. often forces doctors to select one patient over another. Usually the choice is made solely on the basis of medical need, but, says David Rothman, professor of society and medicine at Columbia University, ''social criteria sometimes enter in.'' Few hospitals, he notes, will offer a liver to an unrecovered alcoholic or a heart to an inveterate smoker...
...Then the pilgrims came. The winter weather turned heavenly - one blue day after another. And the crowds of youths weren't quite the kind party-mad "Sinny" is used to. They were happy, patient, peaceable. They sang hymns and waved flags. When protesters threw condoms at them, they called, "Jesus loves you, too." When gay activists dressed as monks, nuns and devils shouted "Pope Go Homo, Gay Is Great," pilgrims made peace signs. After a mass on Bondi Beach, some high-spirited worshipers plunged into the surf. "They don't feel the cold, obviously," said local resident Lilian Selby...
...accident when she was 20. Though there is no intra-family battle over Eluana Englaro's fate, the case contains the same mix of legal appeals, religious activism and philosophical ponderings. Local newspapers have been filled in recent days with smiling photographs of the now comatose patient before the car crash, and details of her current condition: she breathes on her own, and opens her eyes each morning, but is unconscious and immobile...
...reminded of that patient after researchers at the University of Texas in Houston released a study in May showing that susceptibility to this perplexing, often debilitating disease tends to run in families. Shingles itself is not contagious, although exposure to it can trigger chicken pox in someone who has never had that infection; both are caused by the same virus. Approximately 1 in 3 chicken-pox veterans suffers a reactivation of the bug as an adult, as was the case with my patient in Michigan. Whether the virus, which can lie dormant for decades, resurfaces appears to depend...
...like cancer or HIV/AIDS, you should opt out as well. And because the CDC recommendation is so new - it was announced this spring - you might want to check whether the $150 shot is covered by insurance before you get poked. The vaccine, unfortunately, wasn't an option for my patient, but it may be an option for her relatives, who we now know are at higher risk...